C1840’s, Cased Pair Of Irish Trulock & Son Dublin 38 Bore Percussion Traveling Pistols Stocks Numbered ‘1516’ & Barrels With C-N 7033 / 7034 County Cavan Irish Registration Marks & Original Accessories. None Muzzleloader

C1840’s, Cased Pair Of Irish Trulock & Son Dublin 38 Bore Percussion Traveling Pistols Stocks Numbered ‘1516’ & Barrels With C-N 7033 / 7034 County Cavan Irish Registration Marks & Original Accessories. Sn 19979 - 19979

The Irish Gunmakers Trulock & Son are recorded as having premises at 9 Dawson Street, Dublin in the early to Mid 1800’s. This is an excellent pair of percussion pistols by Trulock & Son. The pistols have quality all original walnut full stocks with chequered grip panels and inlaid void escutcheons on top of their wrists. The butt of each pistol are numbered ‘1516’. They have 3 ½” steel barrels with flat tops and blade fore sights (7 ½” overall). They have foliate decorated trigger guards with extended tangs and pineapple finials, barrel tangs, Dolphin hammers. The action plates of each pistol have foliate engraved decoration & are crisply signed by the manufacturer ‘Trulock & Son’. The top of each barrel crisply are signed ‘Trulock & Son Dublin’. The barrels have Irish Registration marks, one C-N 7033 the other C-N 7034 which is County Cavan (the Irish Registration Act was passed in 1843 and lasted only a short while, until August 1846. There were 39 districts (34 counties, 4 boroughs and Dublin City) each with its own two letter prefix followed by a number. Cavan’s prefix was C-N). Both pistols have their original captive steel ram rods. The barrels of each pistol are smoothbore. The bores are clean. Their cocking & firing actions work as they should. The pistols are complete with their fitted wood case. The case with hinged lid has its original lock & key. The interior of the case is lined in felt and has compartments contoured to snugly fit the pistols and their accessories which include a copper and brass powder flask, a moulded ball with cloth patch, a steel bullet mould numbered 34, a wooden pot with removable lid, a wood handled tool and a wood cleaning rod with brass tip. The price for this excellent pair of cased pistols includes UK delivery. NB as antique percussion weapons no licence is required to own these pistols in the UK if retained as part of a collection or display. Sn 19979

£3,125.00